colour management

Course Title:

ICC Colour Management

Duration:

1 day

Prerequisites:

Go to contentSome experience working with colour in digital images is assumed

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Objectives:

This one-day course explains the concepts and principles of colour management which enable you to improve colour quality, reduce colour production timescales and benefit from real, measurable cost savings

It is for anyone who works with digital images from creatives through to repro and print professionals who needs to understand how to create, implement and get the most out of ICC profiles. Good colour management improves the accuracy, predictability and consistency of colour reproduction from scanning through to print by using ICC colour profiles

 

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INTRODUCTION

What is ICC colour management?
Why is it important?
Features of colour management
Benefits of colour management
What is an ICC colour profile?

COLOUR THEORY

Understanding the additive colour model: what it is and when it is used
Understanding the subtractive colour model – what it is and when it is used
An Introduction to LAB colour
RGB vs CMYK vs LAB
Understanding colour space
Understanding colour Gamut
What is device dependent colour?
Device dependent vs device independent colour
Calibration versus profiling
Objective versus subjective colour reproduction

MONITOR CALIBRATION

How to calibrate a monitor
Factors to take into consideration when calibrating a monitor

PROFILE CREATION

Monitor profiling
Scanner and digital camera profiling
Printer and proofer profiling
What are colour targets?
How to use a colour target

THE DIFFERENT COLOUR MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS

Spectrophotometers, Colorimeters and Densitomers
Colour Temperature
Lighting Considerations
Editing profiles

ICC COLOUR MANAGEMENT

Implementing an ICC workflow
Customising Photoshop settings
Embedding and applying ICC profiles
WYSIWYG?
Maintaining colour consistency
Tips for successful colour management

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